Personality Profiles Using MBTI Test for Sport Talent Identification for Students

Making an accurate and valid prediction about an athlete's long term success in professional sport is likely a difficult aspect of professional coaches' role. To date however, personality inventories have yet to become common place within this evaluative process; and thus, their predictive utility within the talent identification process has not yet been adequately tested [1]. This study described of personality profile for talent identification for elementary and junior high school students in Magelang. Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) used for measure a psychometric personality. 354 Students in Magelang (205 male, 149 female) filled out the MBTI. In present research work it was found that male students of elementary school were having a significantly higher preference of I and S than male students of junior school who were having preference of T and P. Additionally it was found that the female students of elementary school were having a significantly higher only on attribute of F, than their female counterparts of junior students in whom E, N and J attribute was high. ESTJ type was found to be the dominant one in the Magelang students' population followed by ESTP type.